East Hoathly

The first bonfire sculpture - a huge learning curve! The bonfire had for a number of years been made from pallets. I had been for sometime looking at it thinking I could do something with those! So started the bonfire sculptures.

'St. George and the Dragon'. One of the most popular fires I've built. Created around something I saw the year before - the foremast on "Victory" acted as a chimney and vented a jet of smoke through it, I tried to do the same with the dragons mouth - worked very briefly, unfortunately the fire burnt the tubing almost as soon as it started.The wings on the dragon came from the soon to be demolished empty premises of PB fencing.

'Wizard' - I was trying to create several effects with this bonfire. Smoke vented out through the outstretched hand, a skull mounted onto a central point and had a small fixed fan built into the top, which we hoped would be forced to revolve when the hot gas and smoke rose through it and he had hair that would stand on end as it burnt. Safe to say the effects didn't quite go to plan, an extremely spectacular bonfire none-the-less!

1st World War Memorial. Every Sunday after the East Hoathly Carnival the members get up before dawn to clean the streets ready for the Remembrance Sunday Parade. Which they join and attend the service at the village church. This sculpture was inspired by and designed whilst listening to our parish priest's sermon of 2007.

A very wet bonfire site greeted us on Saturday- it has never been this wet before we've started- often this wet during and after but never before- it is going to be soggy build for this years East Hoathly Carnival's Bonfire Sculpture.